Basic Advice on How to Interpret Luther Before addressing a particular element of Rob Bell’s new book, I want to make sure that anyone reading this understands exactly what I am and am not doing. First, to avoid the usual…
Basic Advice on How to Interpret Luther Before addressing a particular element of Rob Bell’s new book, I want to make sure that anyone reading this understands exactly what I am and am not doing. First, to avoid the usual…
On Sunday I preached part 7 in the current series God’s Great Story: How the Gospel Changes Everything. It is entitled “The Incarnate God” and can be listened to or downloaded HERE.
“Many in the church today have universalism simply as a hope. Though they may not preach it dogmatically, they don’t eliminate the possibility that all will be saved in the end. We may call them the ‘wishful universalists.’ I have…
When Zondervan says you do not fit within the parameters of their mission, you know you’re in trouble. Zondervan (along with IVP) pretty much defines broad margin, big tent evangelicalism these days. Large publishing houses like Zondervan are also very…
Well, Mrs Trotter and myself have been most astonished at the, umm, astonishment that Rob Bell has apparently come out as a universalist. Indeed, the fact that Zondervan has now apparently broken ties with the chap shows what a stunning…
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The latest controversy over the doctrine of hell has raised the larger of issue of Christian doctrine in general. It is no surprise that there are certain doctrines, not least of all the gospel itself (1 Cor 1:18ff) which offend…
Just yesterday someone told me of a sincere and well-meaning Christian family who forbid their children from reading Harry Potter books and who buy them Rob Bell’s Nooma Videos to watch instead. What is particularly galling about that is that…
The latest flap over Rob Bell’s views of hell and salvation have raised once again the post-modern infatuation with doubt and uncertainty. Even as post-modernism has largely been consigned to the intellectual trash bin, the emergent kids still think it…
